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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Everyone & Boring People

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Peter Grosz joins Emma on a search for the most boring person in the world and Emma interviews astronaut Victor Glover about the boring parts of his exciting job.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up, the most boring person in the world farting in space and tax fraud.

0:07.0

I'm Emma Choi and this is everyone in their mom.

0:10.0

Hi everyone! Welcome to everyone in their mom, a weekly show from Weight Weight Don't Tell Me,

0:31.0

where we take a break from the news to fall down a little rabbit hole instead.

0:35.0

I'm your host Emma Choi. This week we're discussing something super boring,

0:40.0

with comedian actor Weight Weight Panelist and a man who I think if he put his heart into it,

0:45.0

could hand crafter really good wooden bowl. It's Peter Gross!

0:48.0

Hi Peter! Hi how are you? I am so glad that you think that of me.

0:53.0

Peter, I'm so excited to talk about this news.

0:56.0

Science has finally found the most boring person in the world.

1:01.0

Before we get into it though, who's the most boring person you know?

1:04.0

I know a few accountants, I guess, and they live like pretty straight forward.

1:10.0

I wouldn't call them boring, maybe like straight laced or down the middle or...

1:15.0

The color beige.

1:16.0

The color, yes. Human personifications of the color, beige walking beige.

1:22.0

Yeah, but like accounting should be, it's not like your accountant should be like,

1:26.0

I got a crazy fun, exciting way to do your taxes.

1:29.0

Yeah, we'll commit tax fraud together!

1:34.0

That's what exciting accounting is.

1:36.0

Okay, let me tell you what the story is really all about.

1:41.0

A researcher at the University of Essex had people rank the most boring traits,

1:45.0

and it turns out the five most boring jobs are data analysis, accounting,

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